Would be awesome if you could make some videos where you read articles and then translate each sentence. It would be really helpful for those who know the basics but just cannot formulate many sentences. Thank you for the tutorials :D
The most frequent verbs tend to be irregular in languages. People used resp. use them more often, that's the underlying logic. Less frequent irregular verbs in German have more of a tendency to be conjugated in the regular way, if alternative options exist.
In Finland we are taught that the Swedish verbs have 4 different families, all of which are conjugated differently. :) 1. jobba, jobbAR, jobbADE, jobbAT 2. ringa, ringER, ringDE, ringT / läsa, läsER, läsTE, läsT 3. bo, boR, boDDE, boTT 4. All the irregular verbs, like vara, äta, sova, gå... Great video Erik, helps me to maintain my Swedish skills (which are pretty horrendous considering that I have studied it for years).
+vviima You are correct. Swedish actually has four conjugations that are set out exactly as you did. The only way to know what conjugation a verb belongs to is to memorize the principal parts of each verb (infinitive, present, past, and supine) as you encounter it. Once you've done that, the rest is easy. :-)
Amazing channel Erik, I am a brazilian portuguese speaker currently living in Argentina and I´m having a really hard time studying swedish in spanish. I just realized it is so much easier for me if I follow the english - swedish workflow. Maybe for the languages root? Thank you very much and cheers from South America.
Can you elaborate on the conjugations to explain how each verb is conjugated with each article? Vara is an irregular verb so it'd really be nice to know all conjugations. Thank you for taking your time to make these videos!
"Plugga" is a very casual verb, though - a more neutral verb would be "studera". There is also a related noun for "plugga" --- "plugg", which is a casual word for "school", usually in the definite form "plugget" ("the school"). It can also refer to whatever you need to study for a specific course, so for example "jag är upptagen med en massa plugg" means "I'm busy with a bunch of school work".
Thank you! Any recommendation on studying the irrgeular verbs? By the way, could it be that when you speak in swedish your sounds are more "nasal" than when you speak in english?
Hey, Erik! Thank you so much for the videos. I have a little question about the pronunciation of the word "imorgon". I have read in my "Lärobok för självstudier" that the word is pronunced as "imoRRon". And the google-translator speaks it the same way. So which variant is more common and used? Thanks in advance
+Jaff Schneider Imorgon would be the most correct way to say it and how I would say it to a foreigner, but It´s true, we almost always say imorron, I say imorron. Continue to say imorron. I just now added an annotation in the video about it, thank you for your contribution ;)
Thank you so much for doing this series! It is much appreciated. The most helpful thing to me is hearing the pronunciation. I will have to watch this verbs video over again, its a very complex part. I had one question: when speaking Swedish yourself, do you ever use the word 'hen'? I heard that it is a new pronoun used in some cases instead of han or hon. Tack!
+April Humbles Thank you, I'm glad I can help! Hen is a new word, so new I'm not sure it really exists. Some people use it because they don't like the idea of naming a man a man or a woman a woman, they want someting more anonymous, because a man does not always feel he is a man. I have never used it and I don't think I ever will.
Kan du kanske förklara skillnaden mellan dem och de nån gång? Jag behöver förstå det - är utbytesstudent i Sverige typ åtta månader sen och förstår det fortfarande inte :(
It's really bizarre for me (native Polish speaker) that in Swedish you write a specific sound using combination of two letters while "K" is one of them, I mean for instance "körde" and "kärlek"... if you ask a Pole, who has no idea about Swedish, to write these words just listening to them, it'd be "śorde" or "śarlek" (alternatively "siorde" and "siarlek")
Sorry I messed that one up a little. The real word "de" can be casually written "dom" which is how it's pronounced and therefore I wrote that initially, but I should have written "de", because that's how you really write it.
There's many things like this I find hard. Like when I see sentences to fill in the blank it may ask me to choose to say, 'a little book, or a small book.' And I can't tell which conjugation to use; lilla bok, litet bok, lille bok... or I could have said sma bok... :O
Ana Paula Procopio de Azevedo Yes you can! 'I speak' directly translates to 'jag talar'. I personally think the verb 'tala' sounds antique, and most Swedes prefer to use 'prata'.
I recommend checking this out forum.duolingo.com/comment/34410794/Talar-vs-pratar So it sounds like they both mean the same thing but "prata" is more common, especially amongst younger Swedes. Many Swedes in the discussion said that most of the time when they hear "tala" it is in a formal setting, like at a conference. Even in formal settings, you might hear "prata". There's also "snacka" which is the most informal of the three. It's considered slang. Hope this helps.
Hi! I am deaf. I never learn Swedish in a whole life. Swedish is very difficult language. I know Spanish and Finland a little but I do still practice it. I am so curious about Swedish. I think Swedish is very interesting. I hope I can learn Swedish for the future. Wish me a good luck :-)
Manny Lop That moment when you are german and everyone is like - Swedish is German in easy. FeelsBadMan Cuz it's kinda true 😂 Life is too short for german, learn swedish
Maybe you should change "dom" to "de" since "dom" isn't really correct swedish =) For those of you who are learning, the words "de" and "dem" (they and them) usually merge and become "dom" in general speech, 99% of all swedish speakers do this. But most of the time it's not considered right to write it like that.
"De" kan uttalas som de, di och dom. "Dem" kan uttalas som dem, dom, tem. Di och dom, sida vid sida, har varit de mest vanliga uttalen framtill senare 1900-tal.
I'm learning Svenska with your channel. I am Japanese and planning to move to Sweden next year. But the problem is, we don't have decent swedish learning contents in Japan. Buy yours is exception. You are helping a lot for my swedish learning process. Waiting for another video hopefully
What really beats me is te way the stressed "i" is pronounced. When I try to reproduce it, I feel like throwing up! But it as nothing to do with the language. I find it beautiful and fascinating! Thankyou for te videos!
Honestly some excellent lessons. I'm trying to pick up some basic Swedish just for fun, and these videos really help me get a baseline down. I don't really have anyone that speaks Swedish where I live, and hearing you say the words really helps with pronunciation.
I will really look into this, but not now, because i just came home and I am completely drunk :D But I look forward to spending a year in your beautiful country ;)
Amazing videos! Erick, podrías ayudarme con nombres de cantantes Noruegos. Para escuchar música en Noruego. por favor! Estoy fascinado con tu pronunciación!
Wow, it's so great! Thanks for doing this! :) Thanks to people like you people like me can learn this beautiful language after they fell in love with it when visiting Stockholm once in their life :D
Absolutely love the sound of the Swedish language. I found out I’m part Swedish, so I’m trying to learn as much of the language as I can! Thanks for making these videos. :) 🇸🇪
Amanda Vasconcellos Vieira jag har flytat till Sverige ungefär 1 år. Jag hoppas att det finns nångon som kan pratar och läsar svenska tillsammans med mig. Vill du läsa svenska och hjälpa varandra tillsammans med mig. Det är bättre att läsa något med någon, tycker jag. Tack!
Hi Erik, I'm a fan of the videos. I had a few questions about pronunciation: I've heard some other Swedes drop the 'g' in 'jag' , like in this video: watch?v=eQeraNekJV4 Similarly, there's a slightly difference in how words ending in 'i' are pronounced (for instance 'vi' and 'ni'). Is the difference between east/west Sweden? North/south Sweden? City to city? Or are you enunciating for beginners?
+Elijah Rippeth Hi and sorry for the late reply! I think RU-vid hid your comment because it included a link. Actually in most cases the Swedes drop the "g" in "jag". You might say ít´s a bad habbit of mine to pronounce the g so clearly (although it should be) but it´s all too easy to pronounce it clearly when reading. In the later videos, lesson 7 and 8 I´ve dropped the g on some occasions, but they could be dropped always. About "vi" and "ni", the difference could be the sentance. For example in lesson 8, when Í´m pronouncing all the personal pronouns by themselves, the "i" in "vi" and "ni" is longer than the "vi" in my sentence "vi såg dem i skolan", making the sentence faster to say. How you pronounce vi and ni can have slight, small variation depending on where you are in Sweden. Also, you link you sent me, she is not born in Sweden and does not have the best Swedish pronounciation. You can still learn from her.
Thanks for the lesson! I took a few months ago a Swedish course and I do know you have different dialects depending on the part of the country they live, do you live in Stockholm? What's the difference between pratar and talar ? Because I remember in order to say "I speak Swedish" it was "Jag talar svenska" And, I also saw the other videos with Patricia and Pedro, and seriously, the way Swedish people talk about themselves is not as the way you are, I mean, you are so extroverted, moving around, having fun, and on the other hand, most of them say that they are kind of serious, don't make eye contact, they are shy, etc... Anyway, I really liked your videos. The best luck always. I'll hope to watch your videos soon form Mexico!
+Jesùs Martin Treniño theriot Thank you for your comment! There are dialects but they are not so different from each other. I'm from Stockholm so the dialect there is probably the most "Swedish" if you may say. The verb talar you NEVER need to use! Because in English they have to verbs, we in learning use two verbs too to show the difference for the Swedes. But really, you only need to use pratar. That works perfectly and is recommended for both speak and talk. Talar to me sounds very antique. Don't use it. Yes, that's what they say Swedes are like! I say so too, I think there is some sort of truth in it but to be honest I cannot prove it. I'm definitely not the stereotype of a Swede ;) Thank you!
I just decided to look how Swedish really sounds and when I saw your video I was like "I need to learn it now ". Even if it's a "hard" language, it seems simple thanks to your videos 👌
I love these videos! You make Swedish sound so easy :) Maybe for the next video you could do family or feelings? Also, when you're listing all the pronouns, there are two yous. Could you please explain the difference? Tack så mycket!
Amazing. Thanks for explaining the basic grammar. Studying basic grammar in conjunction with a frequency dictionary seems to be the fastest way to fluency, at least for me. Did you know you only use about 1000 different words in everyday speech? For Swedish I recommend the frequency dictionaries from MostUsedWords! Hope this helps :)
Erik, is Swedish a difficult language to learn? Compared with German how difficult is it? Btw, I found your videos really interesting. Your country and language are fascinating and you're good looking ^^
I would say no language is easy to learn yet there are many things to Swedish that can make your life easier. I myself am learning Swedish and I find it easier to learn than German because for one I like the language and two, there are similar ideas/words in Swedish with Germanic languages. Take "Inte or Inga" it's similar (at least to me) to the German (keine) or the Dutch "Geen"! Good luck!
Thank you, Erik! You're such a good teacher. Right on! Swedish is a beautiful language and similar to german, so it's easier to understand. I'm going to visit Sweden this summer and I'm very exciting. :) Many Greetings from Germany!
guuuush those videos are so helpful! :) especially with pronunciation as it feels like it's the hardest part of learning. rewatching it again and again to memorize everything haha you're doing such a great job, Erik ;) thanks!
I am fluent in Swedish and i am currently learning Spanish/Mexican and i saw the ver in the title and i thought, hey im learning Spanish verbs. You know what they saw right? you learn something new every day so i will be kind a teach some Spanish verbs, Yo- I- jag tu- you- du el/la he/she - hon/han ustedes- they- dom nostotos- we- vi ellos/ellas - boys (Plural)/ girls (plural)
'Okay, that was a hard lesson. I understand if you don't understand.' 🤣🤣 You've killed me there man! 💀 I love your lessons, going to Sweden in a week and trying to catch up as much as possible :-)
Only weird letter is that å. Ä and ö is in german too. Bit differet pronounced but almost same I would say. I love that many europeans languages are germanic :)
my name is Eric. my Sweedish Chemistry professor's name is Eriks. I see that you are named Erik. is there any Swedish person you know who spells thier name 'Eric'?
thank you so much for your videos i LOVE swedish and i want to study and maybe live in stockholm i would to meet you if i'm in sweden so you can maybe help me a bit with my swedish thanks a lot from the netherlands!
